writing about cool people making cool things

Month: June 2016

Happy belated one year anniversary of legalization of same-sex marriage in the US! Here’s a bunch of great resources for finding queer representation in comics, because I know I love it and I hope you do too. This is obviously not at ALL a full list…feel free to shoot more resources to me @Beebidon on…… Continue reading Queer comics! Whee!

Week 26: Amrit “Musterni” Brar “Book X: Lovers and Losers – Aquarius” Check out her website, Tumblr, Redbubble, and Storenvy. Amrit Brar–also known as Musterni–is an artist probably best known for her Shitty Horoscope series (which will be released as a 190-page anthology, thanks to Kickstarter). They stand as a satire of typical horoscope fair…… Continue reading An Artist a Week: Amrit Brar (“Musterni”)

Week 25: “Princess M” “Collapsing Structures” Find her on her website, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, or Etsy. If it hadn’t become abundantly clear by now, I love bright colors, especially of the watercolor/smoke-and-wisps variety. You will also come to realize in the coming weeks that I love surrealism as well. This is why pop surrealism–and artists like…… Continue reading An Artist a Week: “Princess M”

Week 24: Joelle Murray “Green” Find her on Instagram, Dribbble, Upwork, Society6, or her blog. Joelle Murray is an animator and designer who says character design is her favorite thing to do. She’s got a very precious style, cutesy and full of good feelings perfect for kid’s shows or animated film. She has a completely…… Continue reading An Artist a Week: Joelle Murray

Week 23: John Clowder “Oedipus and the Sphinx” (2012) Find him on Deviantart, Facebook, or Tumblr. John Clowder is, quite obviously, surreal in his art tastes. He is also a game creator, responsible for some of the most thought-provoking, weird, confusing amalgamations of philosophy, art, and psychedelics I have ever seen. These include Gingiva, Middens,…… Continue reading An Artist a Week: John Clowder

Week 22: Trungles “The Moon” (2015) Find him on Twitter, Tumblr, Deviantart, Tapastic, Patreon or Gumroad (where you can download comics and sketchbooks). Trungles is a comic artist who I have been following on twitter for a while and admire greatly. Not only is he an incredible artist, but he’s also clearly a person with his heart…… Continue reading An Artist a Week: Trungles

“My name is Arby (@callanerial), I am 33 years old. I reside in Phoenix, Arizona and I’m a webcomic creator! My webcomic is called Grayling.” What do you do? (Write, draw, edit, publish, promote etc.) How did you get started doing that? I write and I draw! I have been drawing since I was little,…… Continue reading Comix Creator Feature: Arborwin “Arby” of Grayling